Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 November 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Ms Hardiman accepts that the service is inadequate. He also said that it would be "dishonest", to use his word, to claim that the cyberattack and the impact of Covid-19 are the main drivers of a worsening situation. While he accepted that those events would have had an impact on longer waiting times, he said that the problems predate the onset of Covid-19 and the cyberattack. Yet Ms Hardiman, in her opening statement, mentioned on three occasions the impact of the cyberattack and Covid-19.
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